Changing Habits for Health Zhang Baotong 2018.10.29

Most of us don't pray for great wealth, but we all want to be safe and healthy. Health is the most valuable asset in life, and no wealth can surpass health. If there are no accidents, health may be the most important guarantee of our life's safety. Many people compare the relationship between health and power, fame, status, money, and beauty as health is 1, while power, fame, status, money, and beauty are all zero. With health, the more zeros after the 1, the richer the richer, and without the 1, the more zeros after the 1, it is useless.

Our health is like a fertile soil, and whatever seed you sow on it will bear fruit. Our health is completely controlled by our lifestyle and habits, if our habits are good, our body will be healthy, and if our habits are not good, our body will be sick.

The most common problems we usually have are getting hot and cold. The fire is caused by eating too much hot food, such as too much chicken, fish, beef and mutton, or too many nuts such as melon seeds and chestnuts. The mouth, tongue, lips and nose will become blistered and red, and even the eyes will become inflamed and will not disappear for a long time. At this time, you have to adjust your diet and eat more cold foods such as raw pears, cold potatoes, bitter gourd and celery to lower the fire in your body.

However, for some frail people, eating more cold food will make it easy to have diarrhea. For example, some people with a bad stomach will get sick as long as they eat pears or cold food, or have diarrhea, or have a cold stomach, and have a sour stomach. At this point, you can eat a little hot food. For people who often have bad stomach, they should eat more hot foods such as chicken, fish, beef, mutton, and nuts to slowly reduce the coolness in the body. However, as long as such a person eats a little more hot food, he will quickly get angry and have inflammation of the mouth and tongue. So, this requires us to constantly adjust and adapt.

I have a deep understanding and feeling in this regard. Because I often write, I have a relatively serious colitis, and I have been to many big hospitals, and I have seen Chinese and Western medicine many times, but I can't see it well at all. Later, I simply stopped watching it. As soon as your stomach is upset, you should stop writing and go out for a while. Watch TV every night and nibble on some sunflower seeds. When my stomach is healed, my mouth and tongue begin to foam again. I stopped eating meat and nuts, bought a few pears, and ate them for a few days. Sometimes, when your stomach suddenly feels uncomfortable, you can massage it with your hands to feel better. After about three or five years, colitis seems to have lessened a lot, but after a month or two, I will still have diarrhea due to colds or eating unclean food. But I insisted on massages and activities to keep my food balanced, so now I haven't had a diarrhea for half a year or a year. A colleague who suffers from colitis like me often runs to the hospital twice in three days, either taking Western medicine or drinking Chinese medicine all day long, but until now, the disease has not been good.

If we get sick or eat unclean food, harmful bacteria will take advantage of the weakness and suddenly break out and start to corrode our stomach, and we will become sick and uncomfortable. The same is true for colds, coughs, and fevers, which are caused by cold, exertion, and weakness. It doesn't do much harm to our lives, but it makes us feel very uncomfortable. In this regard, we should pay special attention to it in ordinary times, wear more clothes when the weather is cooler, do not stay up late and overwork, and try to avoid eating unclean and spoiled food when the weather is cold. As long as we can maintain a good lifestyle, the immunity in our body is enough to fight off those viruses and germs.

And for those who have a good stomach, their absorption capacity will be stronger. Some people can gain weight even by drinking cold water. These people should eat a lighter diet and a little less. If left unchecked, it is easy to gain weight and fat, and obese people can easily cause myocardial infarction, cerebral infarction, hyperlipidemia, high blood sugar and cancer.

It can be said that cold and improper diet are the main causes of our illness. In summer and autumn, there are many people with diarrhea, and in spring, autumn and winter, there are especially many people who suffer from colds, colds, coughs, and fevers. Because cold can cause many diseases, some are due to cold in the abdomen, or cold in the lungs, trachea and whole body. As soon as the body gets cold, the immunity decreases, and some germs hidden in our body become arrogant and make trouble in the heavenly palace, so that some weak links in our body are exposed and begin to develop diseases. So, that's something we have to pay extra attention to.

We should have a clear understanding of our own health status, and if we have a bad stomach, we should know what to eat and what not to eat. If we are too obese, we should eat more fruits and vegetables and less meat. If our airways and lungs are not good, we need to pay special attention to the change of weather. If we are prone to colds and fevers, we should avoid overexertion and exposure to colds and heats.

Some people get sick easily because they have a low immunity or don't pay much attention to self-care. Many people think that minor illnesses don't matter, as long as they don't have a major illness, it doesn't matter. However, a major illness begins and develops from a minor illness. There is a saying in China that "a small illness is not cured, but a major one". Bowel cancer, for example, is a fatal disease. However, bowel cancer does not happen overnight. It is first caused by a cold in the abdomen or eating unclean food, because it is not treated in time, it develops acute enteritis, acute enteritis is not treated in time, and it develops into chronic enteritis, chronic enteritis is very difficult to treat, and there are many enteritis that have not even been seen for a lifetime. Chronic enteritis is ulcer when it develops, and ulcer cancer when it develops. If it is detected late or treated in time, it is difficult to save a person's life.

Disease prevention is the same as fire prevention, you can't wait for the house to burn before you know that you should repair the wires in the house as soon as possible. If we want to prevent bowel cancer, we must start by preventing cold in the abdomen and not eating unclean food. If you feel sick to your stomach, you should see a doctor or take medicine immediately. The same is true for other diseases, we must focus on prevention, do not let any kind of disease appear, let alone let the disease develop arbitrarily. Therefore, we must understand our physical condition and weak environment, know the relevant knowledge of disease prevention and treatment, pay attention to physical exercise, maintain a healthy and beneficial lifestyle, and quit bad habits. In this way, we will have many fewer diseases.

If you want to avoid getting sick, you must keep your body healthy. To maintain physical fitness, it is necessary to quit bad habits. Bad lifestyle habits are the biggest harm to our health. Dr. Diana Woodluff, a professor in the Department of Neurology at Temple University in the United States, pointed out that the ideal life expectancy of people should be between 120 and 150 years old, that is, more than 30,000 days. The longevity given by God to each person is roughly the same, but the manifestation is very different from each person. Some people live to be more than 100 years old, while others don't even live to be 40 years old. After decades of follow-up surveys of long-lived people, he listed a number of lifestyles and habits that have a greater impact on our health and longevity.

He pointed out: A small cold will reduce your life expectancy by 3-5 days, a serious illness will reduce your life expectancy by 3-7 years, smoking a cigarette will reduce your life expectancy by 10 minutes, a drunken person will lose your life expectancy by 7-15 days, staying up late once will reduce your life expectancy by 1-2 days, and a big quarrel will reduce your life expectancy by 2-3 days. Sleeping less than 8 hours a day is associated with a 20% increased risk of death, and men with a waist circumference of more than 109 cm have a 50% higher risk of death than men with a waist circumference of less than 89 cm, which is equivalent to living three years less at 40 years. Women with a waist circumference of more than 94 cm have an 80% higher risk of early death than those with less than 69 cm, which is equivalent to living 5 years less at the age of 40; 80% of long-term smokers have arteriosclerosis of the lower limbs, and the aging process of blood vessels is 10 years earlier; incomplete brushing can lead to plaque and periodontitis, which may increase the risk of cancer death, and one in five cancer patients have oral infection and inflammation; sitting still for 3 hours a day shortens life expectancy by 2 years, and those who sit still for more than 11 hours a day have a 40% increased risk of death in the next three years; People who skip breakfast live an average of 2.5 years less than their life expectancy; eating too much salt is prone to high blood pressure, which is the first among the 10 factors for Chinese to reduce their life expectancy. The average life expectancy was reduced by 2 years, the average life expectancy of not being active was reduced by 5 years, and the average life expectancy of not eating fruits and vegetables was reduced by 1.7 years.

It can be seen that our lifespan is decreasing bit by bit because of these daily bad habits, like a drop of water through a stone, slowly consuming our life. It can be said that this is a kind of chronic suicidal behavior. In the medical community, diseases caused by lifestyle habits are called lifestyle-related diseases. This condition is closely related to diet, exercise, sleep, mental hygiene and daily routine, and has more serious pathological behaviors in these lifestyles, so it is often an important cause of our frailty and illness. In order to avoid the harm of lifestyle-related diseases to our health, we must eat reasonably, sleep sweetly, move moderately, have a stable mood and live a regular life in the five aspects of lifestyle. As long as we have a good lifestyle and living habits, our body will be healthy and our life span will be extended.